Antoni Girjatowicz is an American by birth but of Polish descent. In 2010, he settled in the land of his ancestors and developed a flourishing career as an experimental electro artist, in the Psytrance and Darkpsy movements, under the name Mirror Me. This delightful release in collaboration with the Montreal label Voodoo Hoodoo Records offers a pretty effective glimpse into this marginal electro aesthetic, in case you are not familiar with it. The music unfolds on hammered, very fast rhythms, on which bright sparkles of sharp colours scatter, in addition to being supported by plump and insistent bass lines.
Like a ballet of delirious fractals set loose, the melodic lines intertwine, interweave, and continuously metamorphose. The pulse pushes us forward, without resting, or rarely. Some pieces make us whirl in a maelstrom of textures (Intent, Infratones), others seem to simmer beneath a darker, opaque surface (Nox Van Lux). Others, still, bathe in ultra granularity, made up of millions of elementary particles in a state of uncontrolled excitation (Atmana Amana). Red Queen takes us into noise territory.
The distant nurturing source is called Aphex Twin, but there’s also a bit of whey like Merzbow in the recipe. For contemporary similarities, one can find echoes of Cindervomit and XianZai.
The intelligence that accompanies the visceral. We like it a lot.
